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Liberian Girl, Royal Court

07 Jan 15 – 31 Jan 15, 7:45 PM – 10:00 PM

Diana Nneka Atuona's first play has already won an award and contributed to political change. It tells the story of one girl's survival amidst the atrocities of Civil War.

By Lucy Brooks on 1/7/2014

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Liberian Girl, Royal Court
Liberian Girl, Royal Court
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Amidst the brutality and suffering of the Civil War in Liberia, which rampaged from 1989 to 2003, we follow one young girl and discover the nature and the cost of survival. Expect an intense viewing experience; rather than passively sitting, audiences will stand and be immersed in the performance, which, we are warned, includes replica firearms.
This sensitive yet hard-hitting story has already generated quite the buzz. It is the first play written by Peckham born playwright Diana Nneka Atuona, and it earned her the prestigious Alfred Fagon Award. Then Liberian Girl was performed as part of the recent Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, to an audience including chairs Angelina Jolie and William Hague and a selection of campaigners and survivors. 
"This particular play deals with young women and how they experience civil war – I tried to be honest without depressing the audience too much.", Atuona explains. 
She  was part of the  Royal Court's Peckham Writers Group, which seeks to stage plays in alternative spaces, and after its stint at The Royal Court's intimate upstairs Jerwood theatre, Liberian Girl will transfer to Peckham hotspot The Bussey Building then on to Tottenham's Bernie Grant Arts Cafe. 

What Liberian Girl, Royal Court
Where Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London, SW1W 8AS | MAP
Nearest tube Sloane Square (underground)
When 07 Jan 15 – 31 Jan 15, 7:45 PM – 10:00 PM
Price £10-£20
Website Click here to book via Royal Court



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    Sloane Square’s Royal Court is London’s theatre du jour. Challenging productions, new British talent and atmosphere of radicalism ensure it’s every thespian’s first port of call, despite the well-heeled, un-groovy location.

    The Court’s Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone has followed her bold inaugural season by further shaking things up with the 2014--15 focus on new writing and hard-hitting themes. Not that proceedings at the Court were unshaken; her predecessor Dominic Cooke managed to challenge audiences throughout his tenure. There are two stages -the mid-capacity Jerwood Theatre Downstairs and the very intimate studio space Jerwood Theatre Upstairs.

    The basement bar has a great menu, and is in perma-night-time -- sexy lighting, lots of dark corners and the occasional off-duty actor nursing a cappuccino. The thespy bookshop’s great, too.

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